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Tony--

I finally upgraded my original 1.42GHz PowerPC Mac Mini (original January 23, 2005 model) fully upgraded with 1GB RAM & 150GB HD this Spring to a new late 2012 i7 QuadCore 2.4GHz Mac Mini with 1TB regular HD (the $799 model). For $130 more, I went to Micro Center and maxed the RAM from the default 4GB to the max 16GB. Damn this baby flies, and that's without an SSD or faster (7200 RPM) HD. This should last me another 8 years until 2020 or so.

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On Jun 11, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I know, there are only a few motherboards that include
> Thunderbolt on the board.  USB3 is still there.  My feeling is that
> Intel still wants to push USB3 over Thunderbolt. So long as macs have
> both TB and USB3, then you're not going to see much adoption outside
> of high end hard drives designed specifically for high end
> audio/graphics work.
> 
> As the amount of software I use as fallen out to basically being
> Ableton Live and NI Komplete, I could probably switch to a mac now and
> not even really notice the difference.  For the way I work, of course,
> a mac mini could probably handle my workload just fine.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Andrew Tarpinian
> <andrewtarpinian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My guess is tb is still looked at as super pro, safer for most companies to do USB3 I guess, more pro/sumer.
>> 
>> I guess it's up to intel on the pc side, how much they stick it in things.
>> 
>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On a side note..
>>> 
>>> Are there any thunderbolt audio peripherals yet?  I haven't looked, but I don't think I've heard of any.
>>> 
>>> On Jun 11, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Op 11-6-2013 05:33, Andrew Tarpinian schreef:
>>>> 
>>>>> Like this: http://www.sonnettech.com/product/echoexpresschassis.html
>>>> 
>>>> Yet another bus standard... this is where in Dutch I'd say that I'd like to "look the cat out of the tree".
>>>> 
>>>> SCSI vs IDE, USB vs Firewire, SATA vs SAS, and now TB vs Cable PCIe. The jury is still out.
>>>> 
>>>> - Peter
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